The 29-year-old's news and features website wrestlemag.com attracts up to 1.8 million hits a month.

And its 100,000 unique users click on to constantly updated content from around 40 countries as far flung as Peru and Croatia.

Not bad for a site that only celebrates its second birthday in February.

"When I first started I'd do a few columns and bits and bobs," said Phil, originally from Marton but now living in Stockton.

"Then Silvervision, who bring out wrestling DVDs in the UK, asked us if we wanted to review their products and it just snowballed from there."

Phil's site covers the big American organisations like WWE and TNA, plus English organisations such as Teesside-based Three Count Wrestling.

He said: "The site gets some really good feedback and a lot of e-mails from people in the Armed Forces, serving in places like Iraq. Forty per cent of users are from the UK, 40 per cent from the US and another 20 from around 30 other countries.

"And while it's not the biggest wrestling website in the world, in terms of reputation we're doing pretty well, which is most important in some respects."